Ugh sometimes I hate home ownership

[RoxMonster]

Randomly at midnight tonight, our sump pump decided to run constantly with no water in the well. Ugh. So we had to unplug it and thankfully we put in a water line back-up when we moved in, since it is calling for storms overnight.

This sucks, not just because of the money to fix it, but my dog goes absolutely bonkers whenever a stranger is in the house. Nonstop barking and just generally throwing a fit. So I'm dreading having the plumber come out, and hopefully he can come out within the next day or so.

Anyone have a sump pump and run into this issue? From H's Googling, it sounds like a switch is broken, and we are hoping we can just replace the part and not the whole pump. Any experience with this?